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Cancer-hunting nanorobots can shrink tumours

13-Feb-2018

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Nanobots made from origami-folded DNA sheets.

DNA sheets contain blood-clotting drugs to shut off the blood supply to tumours.

Molecule release trigger responds to a chemical signature on the outside of cancer cells.

Could deliver toxic chemotherapy drugs with less side effects.

Doubled the life expectancy of non-treated mice.

Strategy can be used for many types of solid tumour cancers.

The study was published in the journal Nature Biotechnology.

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Hao Yan

Director of the Center for Molecular Design and Biomimetics at the Arizona State University.

Nature Biotechnology

Journal providing information from all areas of biotechnology.

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